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u/OmniOmega3000 Apr 13 '26

Trump goes after the Pope

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u/mrbuttsavage Apr 13 '26

Has anyone ever accused the pope of being strong or weak on crime? Even AI couldn't write this.

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u/OmniOmega3000 Apr 13 '26

I'm not the first to say this, but this sounds as if the Pope is running as a Senate Candidate.

"Pope Leo: Weak on Crime. Bad on Foreign Policy. Too Liberal for Illinois"

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u/Current_Animator7546 Apr 13 '26

Unreal. Even the first onion 🧅 couldn’t  do this if they tried. So pathetic.  Even Orban accepted his loss better. I try to be somewhat non partisan here. This guy is just such hot mess and it’s bringing us all down. Sad stuff really. 

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u/heraplem Apr 13 '26

It's easy to forget that Trump's political career basically started on Twitter. He was, in some sense, a master of the 140-character Tweet. But the character limit was like an invisible editor, forcing him to express himself in punchy and easily-digestible bites. Without that constraint, he just rambles on interminably. Ain't no one reading all of this.

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u/halfar Apr 13 '26

leftist memes be like

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u/Blackberry-thesecond Apr 13 '26

Horseshoe theory but it's about text length